But one person writing on Facebook said the woman had been injured. “(She) got knocked over by a cop with a riot shield…i saw her when she got back up. she was crying and hurt,” Jesse James Cowen wrote.

Rich Lam, the photographer who took the picture, told NPR that he wasn’t sure what was going on.

“I just saw these two people and I thought they were hurt … I didn’t really know what I got until the editor pointed it out,” he said.